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Tyre vs Wyre - What's the difference?

tyre | wyre |

As a proper noun tyre

is an ancient sea port and city state of phoenecia, in present-day lebanon.

As a noun wyre is

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tyre

English

(wikipedia tyre)

Etymology 1

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from (attire), while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to'' (tie). The spelling ''tyre'' is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand after being revived in the 19th century. Both ''tyre'' and (tire) were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States did not adopt the revival of ''tyre'', and ''(tire) is the only spelling currently used there and in Canada.

Alternative forms

* (qualifier) tire

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
    • Usage notes
    Tyre is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British/Commonwealth spelling.
    Related terms
    * pneumatic tyre * spare tyre

    Etymology 2

    From Tamil.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (India) curdled milk

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • attire

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    wyre

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre , Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, 156 And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=c. 1595, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Choise of Valentines, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=104 Smock, climbe a-pace, that I maie see my ioyes; Oh heauen and paradize are all but toyes Compar'd with this sight I now behould, Which well might keepe a man from being olde. 108 A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; And bare out like the bending of an hill, At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; 112 That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres ; A loftie buttock, barrd with azure veines, Whose comelie swelling, when my hand distreines, 116 Or wanton checketh with a harmlesse stype, It makes the fruites of loue oftsoone be rype, And pleasure pluckt too tymelie from the stemme To dye ere it hath seene Jerusalem. 120 O Gods! that euer anie thing so sweete, So suddenlie should fade awaie, and fleete! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1667, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1667, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Creed and I into the Park, and walked, a most pleasant evening, and so took coach, and took up my wife, and in my way home discovered my trouble to my wife for her white locks, [Randle Holmes says the ladies wore "false locks set on wyres , to make them stand at a distance from the head," and accompanies the information with the figure of a lady "with a pair of locks and curls which were in great fashion in 1670" (Planche's "Cyclopaedia of Costume;" Vol. i., p. 248).] swearing by God, several times, which I pray God forgive me for, and bending my fist, that I would not endure it. }}